NO SWEETNESS HERE, and other stories

177pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1970) 2024

A collection of short stories by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo.

Ama Ata Aidoo was born in 1940 in Saltpond, Ghana. She obtained a degree in English from the University of Ghana and taught at universities in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and the USA. In 2000 she established the Mbaasem Foundation to support and promote the work of African women writers. She is the author of the novels Changes (1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Division) and Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections From a Black-eyed Squint, two plays, and the poetry collection Someone talking to Sometime (1987 Nelson Mandela Prize). Aidoo died in 2023.